Invention to Venture -
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Published on: 12/31/2004
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David Potter
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David L. Potter, Founding Principal & Consultant numerous early stage life sciences companies
David L. Potter has been a Founding Principal in, and consultant to, numerous early stage and expansion stage life sciences, consumer products, and business services companies.Dave's company, Momentum Ventures Associates LLC, specializes in bringing in-depth entrepreneurial business acumen to companies with promising intellectual property, but limited business-building and management resources.
In 1997, Dave co-founded Pro-Change Behavior Systems, Inc., a spin-off company from the University of Rhode Island.Pro-Change became a leader in delivering health care compliance solutions for obese and smoking populations.From 2000 until the company's sale in 2002, he served as Chief Operating Officer of Previser Health Solutions, Inc., a start-up company with licensed technology from the University of Washington and the Temple University Medical School.Previser's technology is currently serving chronic disease patients in Israel and the United Kingdom, as well as in the United States.
Dave has subsequently served as a strategic guide and hands-on operating mentor to nine New England companies, ranging from start-ups to a division of a Fortune 200 health care company.He is currently providing consulting help to Vermont Clinical Decision Support, LLC, which licenses its core technology from the University of Vermont.
During his corporate career, Dave served in senior Marketing and General Management positions for divisions of Textron Inc., General Mills, Inc. and the Unum Corporation.He was a senior member of the New Ventures organizations at both General Mills and Unum, driving the commercialization of new product and marketplace expansion initiatives.
Dave received his undergraduate degree from Bowdoin College, and his Masters Degree in Business Administration from Dartmouth College.He is a member of the Association for Corporate Growth, the Keiretsu Forum, the National Association of Corporate Directors, and the MIT and Brown University Venture Forums.